Mini Launch

Thankyou to all the lovely ladies that came to my launch for the new Mini Catalogue. First who were the lucky people that won the prizes:

Main Prize (over $100 of Stampin Up goodies)

Marie-Louise Francken

Level One Stamp Sets

Ann I

Cecile

Jenny

Sharron

$30 to spend

Claire

Leanne

Jenny

Rosa

  There were lots and make and takes. The first one we used the Create a Cupcake stampset and the matching punch for a quick and easy birthday card

The second card uses the beautiful French Foliage stampset and some lovely autumn colours - Cajun Craze, Old Olive and Bravo Burgundy.  This was a popular stamp set with the ladies.

The third make and take was a lovely simple card using the Thanks for Caring stampset with Bravo Burgandy and Crumb Cake for the butterfly, a great card for lots of different occasions.

Nature Walk

Another fabulous stamp set in the New Mini Catalogue is the Nature Walk set which I have used for this card:

I used the word stamp from the French Foliage set for the background instead of using DSP for a change.  The card is all in brown  (Early Espresso) and cream (Very Vanilla) except for a touch of pink in the blossom  (Blushing Bride marker). I am loving all the satin ribbon and lots of my cards have these big bows (I can hear the ladies in my class groaning, they are over bows in class as nearly every card has ribbon of some description as SU ribbon is such a lovely addition to a card)
Card:  Early Espresso and Very Vanilla
Stamps:  French Foliage and Nature Walk
Ink:  Early Espresso
Accessories:  Ribbon and marker

Inkspirations Challenge

This is the Challenge over at Inspirations this week:

Lovely colours for an autumn card. As I had no Poppy Parade I substituted Cherry Cobler and came up with this card:

Lots of colours in the sponging (more mustard and cajun surprise) and the leaves have lots of lovely tones in there as well (more mustard, cajun craze, old olive) The background has been stamped with a second stamping using early espresso.
Stamps:  French Foliage Bring on the Cake (sentiment)
Card:  Early Espresso, Cherry Cobler and Very Vanilla
Ink:  Early Espresso, More Mustard, Cajun Surprise and Old Olive
Accessories:  Ribbon

Embossed Leaves

This technique of cutting out a shape and running it through the lattice embossing folder is very popular at the moment, I have done some leaves from the French Foliage stampe set and it looks very effective on the card.  I am right into the beautiful autumn colours:  Cajun Craze and OId Olive they are a beautiful combination. The background on the card is stamped with Cajun Craze ink onto the card.

This is a close up of the leaf embossed into the card you can see the sharp edge it gives around the leaves

Card:  Cajun Craze, Old Olive and Very Vanilla
Ink: Cajun Craze and Old Olive
Accessories: Lattice Embossing Folder

Inkspirations Challenge

This is a sneek preview of the new Mini Catalogue with lots of lovely autumny stamps and rich colours. Inkspirations Challenge No 63 is to use this sketch:

This is my card for the challenge

Stamps:  French Foliage and Bring on the Cake
Ink:  Cajun Craze, Old Olive Elegant Eggpland and More Mustard
Card: Very Vanilla and Cajun Craze
DSP: Autumn Spice
Accessories: Old Olive Ribbon